I Am Not Pleased.
The deal fell through.
After implicitly accepting my last offer, and challenging another buyer to show non-contingent funding, the seller decided to try to renegotiate the whole thing all over.
I’m not having any. I told my agent to blow it off and shred the earnest check.
I’m not fit company right now. I won’t be posting for a while while I get the residual nastiness out of my system. Yes I will. Why should I allow this little bump in the road to interfere with something I enjoy?
Always look on the bright side of life!
Here - you’ll find plenty of porn here. The really hard stuff is in the list to the left. Indulge yourself!
Tags: anti-social
May 15, 2008 at 7:43 pm
What a Dead set arsehole. Just club the bastard and move on with your life. Hopefully he can’t get anywhere near your offer and has to come crawling back. If so drop your offer back to your original with a take it or leave it statement.
May 15, 2008 at 8:19 pm
You’re reading my mind. I try not to wallow in vindictive fantasies (except when Goths are involved) but this seller has my blood temperature up a bit. What he did should not have occurred. I blame his own agent for allowing it to happen. My own agent is QUITE peeved.
Odds are he’s got a looong wait for the (sniff) buyers to sell their home. I’ll be watching that property whenever I’m down there (often - I’m gonna buy there …eventually!).
Hah! How about: he waits, and waits, and waits …… and the buyer gives up and takes their home off the market.
But I have to admit, the property I wanted is probably worth the asking price. I am - after all - trying to lowball him. He’s just not budging very far, and isn’t in a hurry. But I’m not trying to waste his time, which is what I feel he did to me.
May 15, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Aww that sucks McGoo! Well, maybe there’s something better a little ways on down the road.
May 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Exactly, Enas!
Chin up, and all that! Pip, pip, and all that rot! I say! What!
Those quilty icon things are cool, aren’t they? Your’s is a good one.
May 15, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Aww..that sucks McGoo, I’m sorry. Good strategy though..wallow in it a few minutes and move on. Dealing with punks aren’t worth the BP spike. Plus, you never know what will happen with that acreage or something better.
As far as my earlier post, my day wasn’t so good either. The owner didn’t call me back until 9pm last night for an interview. I went and after many an interruption (final flurry time before the opening), I was hired and home by 11. I’m beginning to think that might have been a red flag.
I went for some training on the new system this afternoon, which still has glitches in it, and IMO has too many extra unnecessary steps to it. Not a good thing when customer service should be as smooth as possible. The whole time one or more of the many smokers was smoking. One of the ’summer’ teethed ladies came walking out front like Igor the retard and decided to drop her pants to show us new girls her big f*cking tidy whiteys with a smiley face, in marker, drawn on her ass. Niiiice. My first day on the job and my ears are plugged up from the smoke, I smell like an ashtray, and I get mooned by a toothless broad.
May 15, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Summer teeth = some are in, some are out
May 15, 2008 at 10:13 pm
And another thing, I’m sick of the rain and sick of the cold. I want a bit of that global warming. It is 53 degrees with the low going to 45. In May. In Missouri. We are supposed to be sweating bullets while walking around in only our underpants this time of year. Algore the f*cking bloated goat can FOAD.
May 16, 2008 at 12:59 am
Dammit. Sorry to hear what happened McGoo. You could take a page from the lib’s playbook and burn an effigy of the foppish retard. It seems to make them feel better, and you would be completely vindicated in conservative circles in that you didn’t do it for any pseudo-political purposes but as a release for frustration.
It’s an option…
May 16, 2008 at 6:26 am
Mooned, stink-clothed, and second-hand smoked half to death!
I think your day sucked worse than mine, PnB!
Yes, I wallowed in self-pity for a few minutes - until I remembered that I’m supposed to be an professional asshole who is immune to such failings. That perked me up a little.
Then a few minutes of not-so-quiet communing with Monte Python and Dennis Leary helped a lot!
“I’m and asshole! (yoddley-yoddle-yoddle!)”
“Always look on the bright side of life (whistle-whistle!)
Do you recall the other property (the ‘River Property’ ) I almost bought last Fall - after I got my Titanium Knob? I finally bailed out on that one because the sellers were taking too damned long to decide. I think I mentioned (somewhere) that It flooded like crazy in the recent S MO deluge, and wasn’t even accessible for 3-5 days. Good decision on my part!
The rain is mostly over for 4-5 days PnB! Take heart and plan an outing this weekend!
Old iron - you’re talkin’ a Burning Man effigy? I could get into that for the seller - ‘cept I don’t know what he looks like. But that matters not: I can make it up as I go.
Ya know - that’s one thing I really need to build when I finally get property: a pagan altar back in the woods. You know - something serious, with stonework and sacrifical platform and blood bowls and everything.
May 16, 2008 at 7:08 am
Nothing says “This house is now a HOME” like having a pagan altar in a little copse of trees, hopefully surrounded by old animal bones and half-burned candles. Interesting thing is that animal sacrifice in the States is actually legal, so if you wanted to be completely authentic…
May 16, 2008 at 7:09 am
Argh. McGoo, could you only post the first comment? Looks like your filter don’t like my comments with links in them…
May 16, 2008 at 7:16 am
You’re limited to one link only. More gets you a trip to the Filter.
But occasionally Akismet gets a wild hair up its ass to block someone for no reason.
I bet the word “legal” as a link tripped its spam trigger. Y’know - as in “free legal advice”, “legal high”, “legal naked pre-teen”, etc. Spam-stuff.
May 16, 2008 at 7:27 am
Fuck it.
Damn, that’s a shame. That one looked like a goody too. And what - if I might say queer* behaviour on the part of the seller and his/her agents. I know (unless I’ve misjudged you) you’re not the type, but accepting an offer and then reneging seems to me - and bearing in mind my understanding of the law is almost non-existent - actionable.
*I mean queer as in strange or unusual, not homosexual. I really like the word and regret how it’s been superceded by the latter meaning. I regret not being able to go into a particularly grimy-looking, inner-city pub and going up to an angry looking fellow and saying, ‘I feel rather queer tonight’ without ending up in one of two situations, both painful.
May 16, 2008 at 7:33 am
Awww, shit, McGoo! I can say shit on your blog, can’t I?
When I bought my current house, it’s because somebody bought the one I really wanted out from under me. It was a shady deal, too. They had accepted my offer, but it went to a friend of the real estate guy. Boo.
In the end, it was a good thing. I wanted it so badly because it was a very eccentric and (to be honest) ugly little house. I’d probably be in a world of hurt right now, trying to sell it.
So…let’s hope you find something better. Let the mooning begin!
May 16, 2008 at 7:40 am
Not actionable, Gibby, although I could write angry letters to the real estate company - a national chain - and probably cause the agent(s) and local office a lot of grief. Not worth my time.
Maybe It’s wishful thinking, but I have a feeling I have not heard the last of this. It would be sweet revenge if the other buyer would bail out now - or, better yet - after letting the seller hang on for a few months.
Vis-a-vis the term “queer”: I, too, sometimes regret the modern focus on one meaning only for the word. Its usage in its original sense - as in Tolkien, etc - is rather neat. It would be a useful word now.
May 16, 2008 at 7:48 am
Of course you can say ’shit’ here. And all the other naughty words, too! There are only a few phrases that are banned here - one of them being “Vote Democrat”.
Thing about real estate purchases is it’s damned near useless to bring litigation to one or more of the parties involved. The only folks who win are the lawyers. Practically speaking, most of those “contracts” aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Unless you’re willing to spend a few Large right up front for a lawyer. Usually it’s just not worth it.
I will find something - or I will compromise. I am desperate to get out of StL. and resume my lifestyle of quiet sloth and pathological immobility.
I remember your story about the ‘first’ house you wanted. Probably a good thing, as you say. you’re present house - from the pics - looks comfortably roomy. I’m not sure I’d like the detached garage. I hate getting rained on when getting into and out of a car.